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Episode 193: The Youth Are Not The Problem. They Are the Solution.

In this episode, we hear from the founder of The Circle Keepers, Martin Urbach, and three youth keepers, centering their voices and ideas about restorative practices, how to build unity […]
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Jul
23
2025
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RJ on The Outside, Not On The Inside...Yet

By Molly Leach July 23, 2025   I recently read an Op-Ed written by the current Executive Director of a Community restorative justice program that I directed for a year […]
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Jul
2
2025
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Facing Up to Our Shadow Side With Compassion

Restorative justice values and strives to honor the needs of everyone involved in the most humane ways possible and in a safe environment — those who commit crimes, and those who suffer from them. In so doing, it brings humanity back into the justice system. It converts a limited worldview based around isolation and individualism into a much more positive vision that is rooted in honesty, accountability, and the visible connection of causes with effects. And it works in concrete terms by drastically reducing recidivism and costs. Most important of all, it nurtures new relationships and a strong sense of human unity. In that sense, the root power of restorative justice is love expressed in action.
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Jul
2
2025
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Stories That Heal: Fostering Belonging in the Shadow of AI

When we ask the question of how to create meaning and belonging in such challenging times, the answer may simply be that we must prioritize slowing down enough to create intentional spaces that allow time for people to be heard, seen, and valued. More than ever, technology offers us a global space to do that and I’ve seen it change lives. I encourage people to consider the possibilities of technology’s role in uniting us, while acknowledging that it can also potentially divide us further.
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Jun
5
2025
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Episode 192: Being Curious and Having Fear w/ Deborah Heifetz

This webinar was recorded on May 9th, 2025. In this episode, social anthropologist and experienced mediator Deborah Heifetz will explore her groundbreaking Map to Compassion — a non-hierarchical framework recently […]
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Feb
26
2025
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Episode 191: Being Restorative w/ Leaf Seligman

Author (Being Restorative, April 2024) and restorative practitioner Leaf Seligman invites us to the tenderness of humility, listening, and towards the values and principles that unite us as a humanity, […]
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Feb
12
2025
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Episode 190: Transforming Systems Broken by Design w/ Tema Okun

This episode features Dr. Tema Okun who gives us a brief rundown of the characteristics of White Supremacy Culture, which can be understood in-depth on her website: www.whitesupremacyculture.info Dr. Tema […]
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Jan
23
2025
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Episode 189: Community Held Restorative Justice

**Disclaimer** Audio was recorded with limited resources, please listen with good headphones to properly hear the valuable information in this episode. recorded at Expanding Restorative Justice in Oregon in 2021.  In […]
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Jan
20
2025
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Episode 188: Our Wounds Are Our Gold w/ Shaylie Pickrell

with Shaylie Pickrell Director of Operations & Infrastructure, RJ Facilitator - Restorative Roots Project (PDX, OR, USA) In this 1:15h episode, we drop deeply into the concept that our greatest […]
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